linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions

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Date:	Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:03:48 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>,
	Frederic Riss <frederic.riss@...il.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 06:49:16 +0100
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:
> 
>> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc7 compared to 2.6.19
>> that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree.
> 
> There are still a few things hanging around.
> 
> I have these queued:
> 
> aio-fix-buggy-put_ioctx-call-in-aio_complete-v2.patch
> kexec-avoid-migration-of-already-disabled-irqs-ia64.patch
> net-smc911x-match-up-spin-lock-unlock.patch
> rtc-pcf8563-detect-polarity-of-century-bit-automatically.patch
> alpha-fix-epoll-syscall-enumerations.patch
> revert-blockdev-direct-io-back-to-2619-version.patch
> scsi-sd-udev-accessing-an-uninitialized-scsi_disk-results-in-a-crash.patch
> altix-more-acpi-prt-support.patch

Would you forward the x86-64 dma_noncoherent API build fix I posted? 
Anything that uses that API won't build on x86-64 without my [simple and 
obvious] patch.


> - I have r8169-fix-a-race-between-pci-probe-and-dev_open.patch floating
>   about, but I forget its status.  

I posted a preferred patch (which someone then noted need to use 
setup_timer), and am waiting for an "it works" response of some sort

	Jeff


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